158: Twitastrophe

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Elon Musk's Twitter disaster has been impossible to look away from, and since we probably owe some amount of our careers to everyone's favorite social media platform, we had to spend this ep running down and trying to make sense of a series of events that's almost impossible to believe. We also dig into some of the feasible alternatives to Twitter, like Mastodon, Cohost, and the Bluesky project with its AT protocol. #twitastrophe Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Brad, I made an old man purchase the other day.
0:03.4	Wade, you?
0:04.2	No.
0:04.6	This is shocking.
0:05.3	I know.
0:06.3	What you got?
0:07.9	I bought, well, okay, so last year or earlier this year when we went up to the mountains,
0:12.6	the place we stayed didn't have particularly, it didn't have like whole house heat.
0:16.5	So they had a wood burning stove in the center of the house that heated up the whole downstairs when you were in there and pumping wood into the stove.
0:23.6	But when you went to bed, it went dark and it got cold and it was really cold up there.
0:27.4	So they had these heated mattress pads under the bed.
0:31.5	I was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever had.
0:33.1	I got into the bed.
0:33.7	It was super cozy.
0:34.6	It stayed really warm all night.
0:36.2	It was it was beautiful,
0:38.3	absolutely wonderful. You couldn't tell there was, there was wiring in there. No, you know,
0:43.8	no feeling of wiring whatsoever. And it's not like, it's not like, I mean, you're, you're
0:48.3	thinking about right now about like the electric blankets of our youth that you get in and it would be
0:52.0	like a thousand degrees under there. Yes.
0:54.5	This is just this just puts a little bit extra, a little bit of, like when it, when it warms
0:59.9	up the bed, you hit it in the pre-heat mode and it toasts up the bed really nicely.
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